How to address the current directory?

[Birdman]

Hello there,

I would like to run a Windows-CMD-file containing an exiftool command from a directory which has no files, but several subdirectories. I used the

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*.jpg -r command in order to carry out the command for every jpg-file in every subdirectory. But since there is no jpg-file in the current directory (where the cmd starts) the command will stop immediately. Putting the current/parent directory in the command will not work, since I would like to use the cmd in different directories by just coping it and starting there.

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Martin,

Try this:

exiftool -ext JPG -r DIR

where DIR is "." for the current directory, or the path to any other directory.

- Phil

[Birdman]

Thank you, that worked perfectly!

[StarGeek]

To create a drag/drop bat file, you could use
exiftool -ext JPG -r %*

Relevant links as to why you can't use *.jpg and recurse
Common Mistake #2
-r (-recurse) option